Eric Tanyavutti’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in cream city review, Potomac Review, The Tusculum Review, The Roanoke Review, and The Southeast Review. He is the recipient of the Josephine M. Bresee Memorial Award in Short Fiction in 2012 and a fellowship from the Callaloo Writing Workshop. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Champaign–Urbana and is currently working as senior medical writer at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America.